"They do nobly," wrote Mr.Coan, "if properly directed and watched over, better perhaps, in some circumstances, than we can; but it is not the work of a day, nor a year, thoroughly to eradicate the habits of life of those who are brought up in gross superstition." Early in the year 1859, the seminary for young men was blessed with its tenth revival, in which a third of its pupils were hopefully converted.

There had then been eleven such spiritual refreshings in the seminary for girls.

In most of these outpourings of the Spirit, as now, the villages were more or less favored.

The effects of these revivals were by no means limited to the souls converted.

An enlightening, softening, elevating influence affected the masses.
The young men from the seminary were generally of good abilities, having been selected from a large number of candidates, and many of them were distinguished for piety; and quite as much might be said of the other seminary.
More than fourteen millions of printed pages had been distributed among the Nestorians.